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Explained: Why many Twitter handles keep losing followers

A lot of Twitter users, including actor Anupam Kher, have tweeted about losing followers ranging from a few hundreds to thousands of users in recent days. According to Twitter, this is the impact of regular clean up exercises on the platform. In fact, earlier too handles have seen similar drops in followers.

Until an account confirms the additional information, it remains in a locked state and therefore it “will not count toward follower counts"